Evolution of "Beauty"

Okay, this is two years old; I didn't get the memo. Still, it's wonderfully done, compact and to the point: a short film of a pretty woman being glammed up by a team of aestheticians. Her photo is then photoshopped to "perfect" her, and the final result is used as "wear our makeup and you'll look like her" advertising. Since the rest of us (even those of us who share this girl's natural advantages) don't come with a presentation team, I'm doubting it. Watch.

The Return of Cake

Via the lovely sfmarty: Tomorrow the Balboa Theatre in the Richmond is having a 97th birthday party for Julia Child. Bring a cake in her honor and get a free ticket to see Julie and Julia (which, of course, I have already seen). But it's a chance to do some cake-work, and Ponyo is also playing at the Balboa, so I'm making a cake and bringing it, and if they give me a free ticket, fine, and if they don't, Oh Well.

I will post pictures before I take it away: lemon pound cake, sealed with lemon jelly and buttercream frosting, and finished with fondant. And in a Julia theme (I'll let you guess what that's going to be).